From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-f51.google.com (mail-oi0-f51.google.com [209.85.218.51]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB7095C0 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:51:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by oies6 with SMTP id s6so65982247oie.1 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:51:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind_com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=hCI7qRXDW4HPQD8gBO4Bf4e8eEQ1UB0aeJM8ED/6RU8=; b=AH6A9L5j4rIrhXxxTVJwbU2eY5TKZ94L7uKtIJvAmRG9gCNeV5Rij5byDcw4vtrLzw RwcFsSZRn67dNC0uDQ0q+FTC5J44a5dhlHya3k8iGCE+nuqZBbBLyaG9S8+UxWVoFtnO BlACGcrhh2foOwXWziLYb6w+pFVn6gWirASkMU5O+Cax3vqM0XmsOBEzJnv2IJvECfHt 3A4kWfmsULXRKlOJ8QOJr+NtswUkZ/CNADG/XnF5tEsJl9KoLw1ustoX2zHspZX2YSPk 9hqnP9eJyg3uX1E/4XG32hNuskkZiM3/a/Dv+xmRrJat7u1yAUDpFUjis0F8scLVlrcO WSXg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=hCI7qRXDW4HPQD8gBO4Bf4e8eEQ1UB0aeJM8ED/6RU8=; b=TckzJBssFFcv57c3vcaxgXHNIfvCA1eSZUtj2kSXzQZ5n142YNg00REDnW6GQ/u8eR c938zu66gY8AdWvUiukcYcD5Q/9HhIHePs/t2Imf8Hp1k+wUq3DnXVcEs90IYXdC5G1x PjqjdECQbx3qy/EPfAOwlRKgrHZ1uzhdlCl1ek4eAzZIG8u1HKwITWydR0n0ZXBfYQyA 8IC0NManysD88uEzEFErOa2IZ7dRDL549VSKLuScbP4w/Ct6Wxhs7uPxRJyF4JJL8FQd oHWka/eeBNN7N9Ou5Qa+0G++dlpBlkWP0Hfg9rEJiYMYtMzFUUl9b7ixgOaTk3ANMgxy kwmg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm5SH+rvTLlDxaBtbTN4sLvDFPLerSuPJK6ekH97s+54at13BWqIMZw7K6DWykh+AV3COv7 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.202.104.91 with SMTP id d88mr15605165oic.57.1447523482522; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:51:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.131.166 with HTTP; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:51:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <56475966.2080404@cisco.com> References: <56475966.2080404@cisco.com> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:51:22 +0100 Message-ID: From: David Marchand To: "Roger B. Melton" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" , Don Provan Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Making rte_eal_pci_probe() in rte_eal_init() optional? X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:51:23 -0000 Hello Roger, On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Roger B. Melton wrote: > Agreed. For our application, the debug case would be to _enable_ the PCI > scan. > > Again, thanks David for pointing it out. It did solve our problem. The only problem with --no-pci is that I think that vfio won't work properly if used. Did you try to blacklist all your devices then attach them later ? I would say what you need here is to "blacklist all" or "whitelist none" at startup, so maybe a special keyword for -b/-w options. -- David Marchand